Quotes About Focus

What you're thinking about can be what you become.

I believe in being fully present," Morrie said. "That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. "I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

I believe in being fully present.

And facing death changes all that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He

Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.

He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.

It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. "The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.

Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

I believe in being fully present, Morrie said. That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Hope is the power to keep focusing on the larger vision while taking the small, often undramatic, steps toward that future.

What else is belief but direction?

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

That's what you do. You find the best angle. You crop. You edit. That's not cheating. That's love.

Bir amaca baÄŸlanmayan ruh yolunu kaybeder. Çünkü her yerde olmak, hiçbir yerde olmamakt?r.

Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.

Read the book through, undeterred and undismayed by the paragraphs, footnotes, comments, and references that escape you. If you let yourself get stalled, if you allow yourself to be tripped up by any one of these stumbling blocks, you are lost.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.

Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.

o leitor ou ouvinte são como o apanhador (catcher) num jogo de beisebol.

your primary obligation is not to become competent in the subject matter but instead to understand the problem.

you can train yourself to follow as it moves more and more quickly across and down the page. You can do this yourself. Place your thumb and